Magic of the Mediterranean diet
Western diets are making us sick, but certain traditional eating patterns can deliver both health and flavour on the one plate.
Western diets are making us sick, but certain Mediterranean diets and traditional eating patterns can deliver both health and flavour on the one plate.
Sue RaddMar 20, 2023, 12:52 AM
Western diets are making us sick, but certain traditional eating patterns can deliver both health and flavour on the one plate.
The Mediterranean benefit
In the 1960s, the Seven Countries study looked at 16 different population groups including several from the Mediterranean. It found that Cretan Greeks had the best health and lowest rates of cancer and heart disease. Their diet was shown to be the main factor influencing this favourable report.
Now research reveals that this so-called Mediterranean diet also protects against metabolic syndrome, controls diabetes better, can reverse fatty liver disease and slash the risk of Alzheimer’s. The more closely you adhere, the stronger your protection.
Ways to imitate the Mediterranean Cretan diet
Other dietary practices
Cretan meals are also mostly cooked slowly with olive oil, garlic, herbs and tomatoes, so they are low in advanced glycation end products (AGEs), formed in the browning process common to such modern cooking methods as toasting.
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